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thereabouts, and commonly known as the Lothians, was
occupied by a considerable mixture of races, as may be
gathered from the place-names there. 1 The district north
of the Lammermoors forming the peninsula over against
what is now the county of Fife would thus seem to have
been Celtic.
The real boundaries of the English colony in Scotland
are indicated by Symeon of Durham in his description of
the boundaries of the ancient diocese of Lindisfarne, a
diocese of which the province of Lothian formed the
northern part. Symeon says that the boundaries of the
northern part of the diocese of Lindisfarne were marked
by the (White) Adder, the Leader and the Esk. He
also mentions that Melrose, Jedburgh, Yetholm, and other
places east of Roxburghshire pertained to the diocese of
Lindisfarne. 8
Thus the Esk in Dumfriesshire near the
English
border marked the real northern limit of the
English province. Beyond that river the Angles had only
isolated settlements, such as Abercorn.
IRISH PLACE-NAMES. The assertions as to English
settlement and suzerainty between the Tweed and the
Forth are based largely on the false etymology of the name
Edinburgh, meaning the "forehead" or "brow" (aodann)
of a "hill" (bruch), Aodann-bruch. Most English his-
torians, being ignorant of the Irish language, have been
unaware of this. One after the other they have echoed the
mistaken notion that the city derived its name from Edwin,
king of Northumbria, and they have proceeded to magnify
his character and exploits in grandiose words on account
of it. Thus Green says concerning Edwin: "Northward
his frontier reached the Forth and was guarded by a city
which bore his name, Edinburgh, Eadwine's burgh, the
iRhys, Early Britain.
aHistoria, I, 197-9; II, 101.
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